Braen v. Pfeifer Oil Transportation Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 21 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 274 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Chandris, Inc. v. Latsis (1995), Jethro Barrett v. Chevron, U.S.A., Inc., E.B.B. Co., Inc. And Lift Barge, Inc. v. Maryland Casualty Company, Intervenor-Appellant (1986)
135 federal appellate · 21 district · 34 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedBraen v. Pfeifer Oil Transportation Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. Bassett · Grant Smith-Porter Ship Co. v. Rohde · O'Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. · Swanson v. Marra Bros.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 274 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the equivalent of the `service of the ship' formula used in maintenance and cure cases.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right of recovery in the Jones Act is given to the seaman as such, and, as in the case of maintenance and cure, the admiralty jurisdiction over the suit depends not on the place where the injury is inflicted but on the nature of the service and its relationship to the operation of the vessel plying in navigable waters.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Petitioner was acting `in the course of his employment' at the time of the injury, for at that moment he was doing the work of his employer pursuant to his employer's orders.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Muth v. Atlass · Atlass v. Atlass
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.